Cost estimate for 37,621 hectares ( 92,960 acres). Project to map and quantify occupied habitat of 3 shrimp and one plant species in core areas in Sacramento and Placer Counties has been funded by CVPHRP.

Ensure Federal agencies use their authority to protect species occurrences and their vernal pool habitat in Zone 1 core areas.

Ongoing Current

FY 2005

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

U.S. Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service

Acquisition: Easement, Management: Planning, Management: Land Use

Internal Field Assistance

To implement 7(a)(1), 7(a)(2) and other obligations. Conservation easements have been placed on habitat on Flying M Ranch, in Merced Co. for multiple vernal pool species and will be placed on Kiefer Landfill Preserve to protect Sacramento Orcutt grass, vernal pool fairy shrimp and vernal pool tadpole shrimp.

Ensure State and local agencies develop or improve existing management and monitoring plans.

Partially Complete

FY 2006

Other

California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Water Resources, County governments, Flood control districts, Irrigation Districts, California Department of Fish and Game, Utilities

Ensure State and local agencies develop or improve existing management and monitoring plans.

Partially Complete

FY 2006

Other

California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Water Resources, County governments, Flood control districts, Irrigation Districts, California Department of Fish and Game, Utilities

Assumes $25,000 x at least 2 sites. Initially successful reintroductions of Neostapfia colusana and Tuctoria greenei have taken place at Grasslands Park and Sacramento NWR Complex respectively.
Carol Witham is propagating and reintroducing Solano grass into Olcott Lake at Jepson Prairie, and Sacramento Orcutt grass into several protected sites in the Mather Core Recovery Unit.

2.5.4.1-1

Soil scarification in Olcott Lake to stimulate germination of Solano grass from the seedbank.

Complete

2008

2010

Labor type not yet selected

Work type not yet selected

Project was unsuccessful. No germination of Solano grass was observed. Hand tools were used and were likely insufficient to break through hard clay soil. It is not known whether soil seed bank still exists. Soil samples were not collected.

Ensure Federal agencies use their authority to protect species occurrences and their vernal pool habitat in Zone 2 core areas.

Ongoing Current

FY 2005

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

U.S. Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service, Natural Resources Conservation Service

Develop hydrologic models to predict effects of hydrologic modifications in various situations.

Ongoing Current

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Contractor

Research: Other Information

Graduate Student

Assumes costs for data collection and modeling. FWS is partially funding a grad student to study subsurface water flow in natural and created vernal pools. Project will be complete in approximately 2013.